The great conductors / by Schonberg, Harold C.

Table of Contents: “…The genus -- From Elias Salomon to divided leadership -- Bach and Handel -- Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven -- Orchestras, tuning and audiences -- The arrival of the stick -- Weber and Spontini -- Francois-Antoine Habeneck -- Hector Berlioz -- Mendelssohn and the German School -- Richard Wagner -- The scene in England -- Franz Liszt -- Hans von Bulow -- The Wagner School-Richter and others -- American and Theodore Thomas -- The big three in France -- Arthur Nikisch -- Karl Muck -- Gustav Mahler -- Richard Strauss -- Felix Weingartner -- The Italians and Toscanini -- Willem Mengelberg -- Wilhelm Furtwangler -- Bruno Walter -- Sir Thomas Beecham -- Serge Koussevitzky -- Leopold Stokowski -- Otto Klemperer and the German School -- The Modern French School -- From central Europe -- The foreign-born contingent in the United States -- Leonard Bernstein -- Present and future.…”